Correspondence

4687.  RB to William Gillum

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 28, 41.

Florence

15 June 1860

Offered for sale in Sotheby’s Catalogue, 9 December 1901, lot 95. 2 pp., 8vo. Thanking Major Gillum [1] for a present, RB writes: “Let me send you some photographs just made in Rome, which your kindness makes me hope you will keep for our sakes. The boy on the pony is from a charming picture by Hamilton Wild, an American artist of various power and greater promise.”

1. William Gillum (1827–1910). See letter 4034, note 2.

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